The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
THURSDAY, Jan. 1st, 1893 Weather

but too far off towards Stone River for
anything to reach us-some two miles
away. The roar of the artillery makes
the ground shake; and the means of
the wounded mix with other sounds.
1t is awful, and they die fast. The
bodies are carried out and the wound
ed brought in and put in their places.
Hundreds lie outside and have no
shelter. / wonder if they know at
home bow we are spending New Years
day in our gore?
FRIDAY, Jan. CLEAR and warm.
No surgical care yet. Nothing to eat.
| suffer badly from my wound to-day.
At noon little -four and water is
mixed up and given US, partly cooked.
1t tastes very good. George Rockwell
died this evening in great pain. He
said, Tell Mr.. and Mrs. Burchard ire
latiVes of his)I have done my duty I
did my best" Then he said last, Il
am growing cold. Sanford" and ex-
pired in few moments. Goodbye to
you. as true soldier as ever died for
his country. ALI paroled this eve.
Can still hear the roar of battle iE front.
SATURDAY. Jan. Windy and rain
ing all day. No surgeon yet. Must lay
and bear it, though it is terrible.
Wounded are dying fast. Can still
hear the roar of battle near all day,
but can't learn how it is going. The
rebels say they are whipping us. The
dead blood on the floor begins to smell
bad. Horrid, indeed!
SUNDAY, Jan. 4--Beautiful and
warm. The birds sing like June at
home. No surgeon yet. L suffer a
great deal to-day. Atday-light the rebs
skedadling back over the field fast.
Glory to the right in battle! They are
whipped 10 o'clock A. M.-We see
those glorious old stars and stripes
againi We are once more, thank God.
under its folds, and it looks more pre-
cious and dear than ever before.
| MONDAY, Jan. 5th-At ga M. all
| loaded. and the train of wagons started
for Nashville, 81 miles distant. Oh,
horror of horrors! this beats all miser.
les yet endured -rattling us over the
stone pikel
TUESDAY, Jan. 6th-Fine and warm.
At 8 P. NJ. Surgeon Duff, of Ohio, puts
me un the table, and went through
the ordeal and oh, it was equal to death
itself, believe. But, thank God, it is
over and off. am SO very weak. but
feel easier than when the shattered
limb was on. -
Capt. Chas. Frantz enlisted Septem-
Der, 1851, in the 9th regiment, served
continuously until April, 1864, when he
was wounded, and, with some $50
more wounded who were left behind
in the retreat of our army at Jenkins
Ferry, was captured by the rebels. The
night of the battle he. with his wound
ed,comrades. some $50, were placed on
the floor of double Lighthouse. There
were so many that they filled the floor,
thick as possible. and were there left
with nothing under or over them
with no light-no one to give them
even a cup of water. In the morning
so men were taken out dead, trench
dug and their bodies consigned to their
last resting place. These were mostly
young men taken from peaceful homes,
unused to- strife and the horrors of
4 war. Think of the anguish and DESC
lation that came into their homes when
the terrible news came to them. 1t
was nearly a week before my surgical
aid was given Capt FrantZ. Then his
wounded arm was taken off close to
the body. The prisoners were kept
near Jenkins Ferry for some four
weeks, when they were marched to
Texas, a two weeks march of 20 to 25
miles per day, in the middle of summer
In the intense heat many died. For
eleven months he was prisoner, and
at the expiration of this time he was
exchanged, being early in the spring
In May, 1865, the war being over. he
was discharged. During all this time
the food of the prisoners consisted of
one pint.of corn meal per day and two
ounces of salt per week. A portion of
the time corn was given in place OF the
meal.
Hon. e. G.. Timme was wounded at
Chickamauga, taken to Chattanooga,
placed in a room in the third s DRY of a
house and left; was there three days
and four nights without any attention
whatever. When found was supposed
to be dead. Two men were detailed to
take the body down for burial. Being
heavy man, they let him fall and he
rolled down one flight of stairs. The
men went for more help, and while
they were gone rebel surgeon ex-
amined him and found he was still
alive. He Was then put into a hos
piCal and his arm amputated.
[ had thought to show you some
| photographs of our soldiers who were
rescued from Andersonville and Libby
prisons, but they have been Shown
around and passed into so many hands
that cannot regain possession of them.
/ i cannot undertake to give any descrip.
ton 6f. the horror of those prisons.
They were beyond all possible descrip-
ton. No human power can give even
a glimpse of their terrible realities.
Wisconsin troops participated in
over 100 engagements. They were
represented in all of the principal bat
Files, and always with credit. In brief,
| Wisconsin gave her best and bravest
without stint, and did her full share of
the work of preserving this Republic
and the blessings0f free government.
of which Mr.. Stevens, in speech made
in January, 1851, before the Georgia
State Convention, convened to act on
the question of secession, said: And as
such, must declare here, as [ have
often done before, and which has been
repeated by the greatest and wisest of
statesmen and patriots of this and
other lands, that it is the best aud
freest Government-the most equal in
its rights-the most just in it's decisions
the most lenient in its measures, and
the most aspiring in its principles to
elevate the race of man-that the sun
of heaven ever shone upon"
Gentlemen, have. tried in as short
space as possible to place before you
the prominent points of this great
struggle, SO far as our state was an
actor. All the Northern States were
equally prominent, equally patriotic
and sacrificing. Illinois, with popu.
lation of 1,711,000 souls, sent 225,2OO
men into the field, and l could go
through the whole list of the Northern